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May 30, 1939. A. s. WHEELBARGER ET AL REGISTER File A g- 1, 1935 3 Sheets-Sheet i y 1939- A. s. WHEELBARGER El AL 2,160,046

REGISTER Filed Aug. l, 1955 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 $35 wfi ka ATT NEY Patented May 30, 1939 REGISTER Albert S. Wheelbarger and William G. Orth, Dayton, Ohio, assignors, by mesne assigmnents, to Central National Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio Application August 1, 1935, Serial No. 34,120 x 16 Claims.

Various means have heretofore been provided to render operative or inoperative. the printing mechanism of a cash register, such as the mechanism shown in Patent 1,981,205, issued Novemher 20, 1934, and Patent 1,977,016, issued October 16, 1934, or to provide means for certifying or 7 not certifying on an inserted slip, such as is shown in our application 752,677, filed November 12, 1934. We now propose to provide means whereby when the clerks and transaction keys or levers are in certain predetermined positions the machine will issue a ticket, but if either the clerks or the transaction lever or key is moved from the said certain positions the ticket printing mechanism will automatically be rendered inoperative and the certifying mechanism will automatically be rendered operative.

More specifically, when the transaction lever is in its home or zero position and the clerks lever is in any one of its first four positions the ticket printing mechanism will be rendered operative but when either the clerks lever is moved beyond its zero position or the transaction lever is moved beyond its first four positions the ticket printing 5 mechanism will be rendered inoperative and the.

certifying mechanism will be rendered operative. Such a construction eliminates the necessity of having a separate lever or key to control the shifting means from the ticket printing to the cer tifying means.

Referring to the drawings: Fig. 1 is a left-hand elevational view of a register with the cabinet removed;

Fig. 2 is a front elevational view thereof with certain of the parts being eliminated for the sake of clearness;

Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of the certifying I mechanism; and

Fig. 4 is a side elevational view of the bar which controls the electric motor and the mechanism directly associated therewith.

The clerks key I is of the type shown in Patent 1,853,792, issued April 12, 1932, to A. S. Wheelbarger, it being provided with an arcuate gear as shown in the said patent which meshes with and drives a pinion 2 pinned to a gear 3, said pinion and gear being pinned to a sleeve 4, which sleeve is rotatably mounted on a shaft 5. The gear 3 meshes with and drives a gear 6 pinned to a shaft 1. The gear 3 also drives a gear 8 rotatably mounted on a shaft 9, which gear meshes with and drives a gear Ill secured to a sleeve II to which is also secured a. clerks indicator I2, the gear Ill, sleeve II, and clerks indicator |2 being rotatably mounted on a shaft l3.

Secured to the shaft- I is a pinion I4 which drives a gear I5 connected to a disk I6 by means of a sleeve H, the gear I5, disk I 6, and sleeve I I being rotatably mounted on the shaft 9. The above arrangement of parts is such that when the lever I is shifted the clerks indicator I2 is rotated and the disk I6 is rotated, it being rotated in the direction of the arrow when the lever I is moved from its zero to any other position and being reversely rotated on the opposite movement of the lever I.

The transaction lever I8 is likewise provided with an arcuate segmental gear I I 9 which meshes with and drives a pinion I9 secured to the shaft 5. A gear 20 is also pinned to the shaft 5 which meshes with and. drives a gear 2| pinned to the shaft 9, which gear 2| meshes with and drives a gear 22 secured to the transaction indicator 23. The gear 2| being pinned to the shaft 9 rotates the said shaft, which rotates a hub 24 pinned to the said shaft and which hub is secured to a transaction disk 25, the arrangement of parts being such that when the transaction lever I8 is moved from its zero or home position the transaction indicator 23 is rotated correspondingly and the transaction disk 25 is rotated in the direction of the arrow, a reverse movement taking place when the lever or key I8 is being shifted towards its zero position. It is, therefore, apparent that as the levers and I8 are moved downwardly or away from the home position the disks I6 and 25 rotate in reverse directions.

The clerks disk I6 is provided with an arcuate notch 26 which extends a distance corresponding to the first four positions of thelever I, it being provided with a cam surface 21 as shown in Fig. 1 so that as said disk 16 rotates clockwise from its fourth to its fifth position as shown in Fig. 1 a roller 28 will be cammed out of said arcuate notch 26 and on to the periphery of the disk I5. Of course the notch 26 could be of any desired extent so as to correspond to the first or the first and second, or any other number of positions of the lever I. The disk 25 is provided with a notch 29 having a cam surface 30, the cam surface 30 extending in the opposite direction from the cam surface 2'! for the reason that thetwo disks rotate in opposite directions. The notch 29 as shown receives the roller 28 only when the transaction key or lever I8 is in it. home position but obviously it may be extended so that the roller 28 will still lie within the notch 29 for any given number of positions of the transaction lever I8.

The roller 28 is mounted on a stud 3| carried by a lever 32 secured to a sleeve 33 mounted on a shaft 34. Secured to the sleeve 33 is a lever 35, the lower end of which lies between pins 38 and 31 mounted on a shifting plate 98 provided with slots 39 and '39 which receive studs 4i and 52 respectively. A link 99 connects the said studs ti and 42 so that the said studs must move together. The stud 42 is mounted on the upper end of a lever 94 pivoted on a shaft 95. The lower end of this lever is bifurcated forming arms 46 and ii. The arm 95 is'provided with an arm 48 adapted to be seated within a radially extending channel 59 of a disk 59 when it is desired to certify but not print tickets. The arm ll is provided with a stud 5| on which is mounted a pinion 52 which, when in position to print tickets, meshes with and drives a pinion 53 secured to a shaft 59. This is the electroplate shaft. When, therefore, the arm -18 is in the channel 39 the pinion 52 is out of mesh with the pinion 53 and the electroplate shaft is held against rotation. However, if the pin 42 is shifted so as to bring the pinion 52 into mesh with the pinion 53 the arm 69 is disengaged from the channel E9 and the electroplate is free to be rotated by the pinion 52, it being driven by the gear 22 shown in Patent 1,977,016.

The stud 4! is mounted on a plate 55 pivoted on a shaft 56. The plate 55 is provided with two notches 5i and 58 which receive a pawl 59 which is urged into engagement with one or the other of said notches by means of a spring 99, the said pawl being mounted on a stud 6 I. The plate 55 is provided with a pin 62 to which is connected a link 63 which carries at its lower end a pin 63 which is also connected to a lever 65 secured to a shaft 69 to which shaft is also secured a lever 67. The lever 67 is provided with a stud 68 on which is mounted a roller 69 which is received within a cam channel 10 in a lever H secured to a shaft 12. The lever H is connected by means of the shaft 12 with a lever 13 which carries a pin 14 connected to a slide 15 which carries a lug 16 which is received within a notch l'l in a disk 18 when tickets are being issued; that is, when the pawl 59 is within the notch 51. If, however, the plate 55 has been rotated counter-clockwise so that the pawl 59 is in the notch 58 the plate it? will have been moved by the pin 74 so as to disengage the lug 15 from the notch 11 and to free the disk 18 so that it can be rotated.

The slide '15 is provided with a circular cutaway portion 79 which receives a circular disk 89 provided with a slot 8! and a radially extending lug 82. Within the slot 91 are arms 83 which are a part of the disk 18. As the slide 15 is moved upwardly and to the left as viewed in Fig. 3 it carries the disk 80 with it so as to engage the radially extending lug 82 with the slot between the arms 83 of the disk 18 and immediately thereafter the lug I6 is moved out of the radially extending slot 11 in the said. disk so that the disks l8 and 80 are locked together when the slide 15 has been moved as far as possible upwardly and to the left. As viewed in Fig. 3 the disk 80 will be concentric with the shaft 89, which is the main drive shaft for the machine.

The disk 19 is loosely mounted on the drive shaft 96 but a disk 8'5 is secured thereto, which disk has outstanding lugs 86 between which may be received the lug 92 carried by the disk 80 so that if the slide 15 is shifted upwardly and to the right as far as possible as viewed in Fig. 3 the lug 82 not only engages the arms 83 on the disk 18 but also extends between the lugs 86 on the disk secured to the main drive shaft so that the disks 85, 78 and 89 will now rotate as a unit with the main drive shaft, which makes one revolution to each operation of the machine. The disk 18 is a box cam disk which is provided with a box cam 81 as shown in Fig. 3. This box cam is provided with lobes 88 and 89. The box cam, including the lobes, operates with a lever 90 connected to an impression mechanism 9! adapted to force a certification slip against the printing wheels 92. All of the structure shown in Fig. 3 is fully shown and described in our co-pending application 762,677.

Suspended from the pin 64 is a link 93 which carries a pin 94 secured to a lever 95 pivoted on a pin 96, which lever carries at its free end a plate 91. When the pawl 59 is in the notch 51 the plate 91 is held in its elevated position so as to engage the arm 98 of a lever 99 pivoted on a shaft I90. When the oscillating printing carrier NH is moved in a counter-clockwise direction so as to bring the platen I92 against the type wheels 193 the arm 99 moves with the printing carriage until the arm 98 engages the plate 91 so that the cam surface Hi l forming a part of the upper end of the lever 99 engages the hub I95 of the platen I92 and elevates it into engagement with the printing wheels I 63 so as to make an impression on the ticket. When, however, the pawl 59 is in the notch 58 the plate 9'! will be held below the arm 98 so that when the oscillating printing carrier is operated the platen 192 will not be elevated into engagement with the printing Wheels 193. All of this mechanism to control the platen I92 is fully shown and described in Patent 1,960,918, issued May 29, 1934. Means whereby the printing carrier is oscillated is fully shown and described in Patent 1,358,813, dated May 17, 1932.

In Patent 1,851,257, issued March 29, 1932, on an application filed by A. S. Wheelbarger, is shown a bar I06 which controls a motor adapted to operate the machine; This bar is provided with a cam surface l9! adapted to engage a roller 98 on a stud I99 carried by a lever H9, which lever is pivoted on a stud Ill. The bar I09 is guided by rollers H2 so that when the operator depresses the bar I99 to operate the motor as described in the said patent the lever H0 is rotated counter-clockwise as viewed in Fig. 4 by the engagement of the roller 98 with the cam surface [07. The lever Ill! is provided with a stud I [3 which engages either a cam surface H4 or a cam surface H5 forming the lower part of an arm H6 carried by the shifting plate 38. It is apparent that if the roller 28 of the lever 35 is in both of the notches 26 and 29 of the disks l6 and 25 respectively the stud H3 will be beneath the cam surface i M of the shifting plate 38. If now the motor bar 896 is operated, the stud H3 will be elevated, moving the shifting plate 38 to the right as viewed in Fig. 1, engaging the pinion 52 with the pinion 53 and disengaging the arm 18 from the radially extending channel 49 so that the electrop-late will be operated. If the notch 58 is engaging the pawl 59 the plate 55 will be rotated clockwise as viewed in Fig. 1 so that the notch 5'? will be engaged by the pawl 59 and the pin 99 will be elevated by means of the link 63 so as to engage the plate 91' with the arm 98 to cause the platen N32 to engage the type wheels I03 and print a ticket. When the pin 64 is in its elevated position the roller 69 will rest at the lower end of the slot 10 (Fig.3) so that the lug 16 carried by the slide 15 engages the notch l! in the box cam disk '18 so that the certifying mechanism shown at the bottom of Fig. 3 will not be oper-- ated and only a ticket will be, printed.

If, however,.either of the transaction or clerks disks or 16 have been rotated to an extent sufficient to move the roller 28 out of the notches 29 and 25 and on to the periphery of the said disk the lever 35 will be rotated clockwise as viewed in Fig. 1 so as to engage the pin 3'! and shift the shifting plate 38 to the left as viewed in Fig. 1 so that the cam surface H5 will be above the stud H3. If the motor bar N16 is now depressed by the operator the stud H3 will be raised, shifting the plate 38 still further to the left as viewed in Fig. 1 and disengaging the pinion 52 from the pinion 53 and forcing the arm 48 into the channel 49 of the disk 59 connected to the electroplate so that the electroplate is held against rotation. As the plate 38 is shifted to the left as above described the plate 55 will be rotated counter-clockwise so as to bring the notch 58 adjacent the pawl 59, which pawl will hold this plate in its shifted position. As the plate 55 is rotated counter-clockwise it depresses the pins .64 and 94, thereby rotating the lever 6'! so as to bring the roller 69 to the upper end of the slot H! and shifting the plate l5 so as to disengage the lug 16 from the notch 11 in the box cam disk 18, thereby permitting this disk to rotate. This movement of the slide 15 moves the circular disk 86 so as to make it concentric with the shaft 34 and the lug 82 engages the arms 83 and extends between the lugs 86 carried by the disk 85 which is fast on the shaft 84 so that the box cam disk 18 will rotate with the shaft 84, which makes one revolution for each operation of the machine. As it makes this revolution the lever 90 is operated so as tobring the certifying impression mechanism 9| into engagement with the type wheels 92, thereby certifying on an inserted slip.

While we have shown a clerks lever and a transaction lever to control the disks 25 and I6 which control all of the printing mechanism described, it is obvious that the invention includes a single lever or key to control a single disk which will controlthe printing mechanism, for it is obviously immaterial whether we use one disk. or two disks. It is likewise obvious that the invention is also intended to include any number of levers to control disks or other means which would automatically change the machine from a receipt issuing machine to a certifying machine, or vice versa.

Each of the levers or keys and 18 are. con sidered as special keys or levers in contra-distinction to the money levers II! which control the money indicators H8.

We realize that many changes may be made in our invention without departing from the spirit thereof and we, therefore, desire to claim the same broadly except as we may limit ourselves in the appended claims.

Having now described our invention, we claim:

1. Ina register comprising two separately operable printing mechanisms and'a manually operable element, means including a movable member to render one of said printing mechanisms operative and the other printing mechanism inoperative, means for imparting operative movement to said movable member in either of two directions, a positioning member acting on said movable member to control the direction of its movement by the last mentioned means, and an operative connection between said positioning member and said manually operable member.

2. In a register comprising two separately operable printing mechanisms and a manually operable element, means including a movable member to render one of said printing mechanisms operative and the other printing mechanism inoperative, means for operating said movable member, a lever acting on said movable member to control the direction of movement of the latter by said operating means, a rotatable member having a cam surface to engage and actuate said lever when said rotatable member is rotated to a predetermined position, and a connection between rotatable member and said manually operable element to position said rotatable member in accordance with the position of said manually operable element.

' 3. In a register comprising two separately operable printing mechanisms and a manually operable element, a rotatable member having a notch,

-means actuated by said manually operable element to control the movement of said rotatable member, a lever having a part arranged to enter said notch when said rotatable member is in one position to be moved out of said notch when said rotatable member is moved to another position, a shiftable plate, means controlled by said lever for shifting said plate, and means selectively con trolled by said plate for rendering one of said printing mechanisms operative and for rendering the other printing mechanisms inoperative.

4. In a register comprising two separately operable printing mechanisms, and a manuallyoperable element, a movable member having two cam surfaces, an actuating device arranged to act on one or the other of said cam surfaces according to the position of said movable member, means actuated by said manually operable element to control the position of said movable member, and means cont-rolled by the action of said actuating device on one of said cam surfaces to render one only of said printing mechanisms operative and controlled by the action of said actuating device on the other cam surface to render the other printing mechanism operative and the first mentioned printing mechanism inoperative.

. 5. In a register comprising a certifying printing mechanism, a ticket printing mechanism and a manually operable element, a rotatable disk, means controlled by said manually operable element to actuate said disk, a movable member having two cam surfaces, means controlled by said disk to control the position of said movable member, a lever having a part arranged to act on one or the other of said cam surfaces according to the position of said movable member, means controlled bythe action of said lever on said movable member to render a selected one of said printing mechanisms operative while the other printing mechanism is inoperative, and a motor controlling device having means for actuating said lever.

6. In a register comprising two separately operable printing mechanisms and a manually operable element, a rotatable member having a not-ch, means actuated by said manually operable said rotatable member is moved to another position, and means to render either of said printing mechanisms operative and to render the other printing. mechanism inoperative and including a part controlled by said lever to select the mechanism. which is to be operated.

7. In a register comprising two separately operable printing mechanisms and a key movable to selected positions, means including a movable member for rendering either of said printing mechanisms operative and rendering the other printing mechanism inoperative, means for imparting difierent movements to said movable member to control said printing mechanisms, and means controlied by said key for selectively controlling the movements imparted to said movable membcr by the last mentioned means.

8. In a register comprising two separately operable printing mechanisms and a key movable to selected positions, means including a movable member for rendering either of said printing mechanisms operative and rendering the other printing mechanism inoperative, means controlled by said key to adjust said movable member, and operating means for imparting to said movable member an operative movement determined by the adjusted position thereof.

Q. In a register comprising two separately operable printing mechanisms and a key movable to seiected positions, means including a movable member for rendering either of said printing mechanisms operative and rendering the other printing mechanism inoperative, a second movabie member, means actuated by said key to adjust said second movable member, means controlled by said second movable member to adjust the first mentioned movable member, and an operating device arranged to act on said first mentioned movable member and to impart thereto an operative movement determined by the adjusted position thereof.

10. In a register comprising a certifying printing mechanism, a ticket printing mechanism and a setting key, a shiftable plate, means controlled by said plate to render either of said mechanisms operative and to render the other mechanism inoperative, means for imparting predetermined movement to said plate, and other means controlled by said key to control the action of said plate on said printing mechanisms.

11. In a register comprising two separately operable printing mechanisms, a setting element :anda device for initiating the operation of said register, means including a movable member to render either of said printing mechanisms operative and to render the other printing mechanism inoperative, means actuated by said operation initiating device to impart operative movement to said movable element, and means controlled by said setting element to control the movement imparted to said movable member by the last mentioned means and thereby selectively control the operation of said printing mechanisms.

12'. In a register comprising two separately operable printing mechanisms, a setting element and a device for initiating the operation of said --.-register, means including a movable member to render either of said printing mechanisms operative and to render the other printing mechanism inoperative, means actuated by said operation initiating device to impart operative movement to said movable member, a second movable member connected with the first mentioned movable member to control the initial position of the latter with relation to said movement imparting means, and an operative connection between said second movable member and said setting element.

13. In a register comprising certifying printing mechanism, a ticket printing mechanism and a setting key, a rotatable disk, means controlled by said key for rotating said disk, operable means for controlling said printing mechanisms to render either of said mechanisms operative and to render the other mechanism inoperative, and means controlled by said disk for selectively controlling the operation of said operable means.

14. In a register comprising two separately operable printing mechanisms, and two keys separately movable to selected positions, two disks, means controlled by said keys for controlling the positions of the respective disks, operable means for rendering a selected. one of said printing mechanisms operative and for rendering the other printing mechanism inoperative, and means controlled by the relative positions of said disks to selectively control said operable means in accordance with the positions of said disks.

15. In a registering mechanism comprising two separately operable printing mechanisms and two keys separately movable to selected positions, two rotatable disks each having a peripheral notch, means actuated by said keys to rotate the respective disks to positions determined by the positions of the respective keys, a movable element having a part to enter both notches when said disks are in predetermined positions and to be moved out of said notches by the movement of either disk from said predetermined position, operable means for rendering a selected one of said printing mechanisms operative and for rendering the other printing mechanism inoperative, and means controlled by said movable element for selectively controlling said operable means in accordance with the positions of said disks with relation one to the other and to said movable element.

16. In a register comprising a ticket printing mechanism, a certifying printing mechanism, a clerks key and a transaction key, two rotatable disks each having a peripheral notch, means controlled by said keys for rotating the respective disks, a movable element having a part arranged to enter both notches when said disks are in predetermined positions and to be moved out of said notches by the movement of either disk from said predetermined position, operable means for selectively controlling the operation of said printing mechanisms, and means controlled by said movable element for controlling said operable means to render said ticket printing mechanism operative and said certifying printing mechanism inoperative when said part of said movable element is in said notches and to render said ticket printing mechanism inoperative and said certifying printing mechanism operative when said part is out of said notches.

ALBERT S. WI-TEELBARGER. WILLIAM G. ORTH. 

